Archive | Movie Reviews
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Movie review: ‘MIB III’ brings adventure and laughs
Men In Black III is a fantastic final installment in the quintessentially ’90s science fiction series. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones do justice to the original movies by delivering yet another action-packed and hilarious performance.
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Movie review: ‘Battleship’
Loud. Louder. Loudest. Those are the three different volumes present in one of the first summer blockbusters of the year, “Battleship.” The movie’s plot is relatively simple.
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Movie review: Tim Burton’s ‘Dark Shadows’ fails to rise out of its coffin
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton mob up together once again in Burton’s new film “Dark Shadows.
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Movie review: Crude humor has no boundaries in Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’
The comedy style of Sacha Baron Cohen is rare even in the odd world that exists today. His crude humor leaves no targets untouched, including all races, religions, ethnicities, genders and anything else I failed to mention.
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Movie review: Return of the superheroes
The Avengers Directed by Joss Whedon Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson Rated PG-13 Now Playing The slew of Marvel superhero movies in recent years has culminated with Joss Whedon’s multimillion dollar brainchild, The Avengers.
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Movie review: Whedon avenges complacent premise, kicks ass
It’s about time the adjective “Whedon-esque” was added to the English language. You know, when a work of entertainment, in the style of Writer/Director Joss Whedon, achieves a balance of dazzling action, heartfelt drama and roll-on-the-theater-floor-and-get-covered-in-spilled-concessions laught...
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Movie review: Marvel avenges itself with ‘The Avengers’
Quadruple the heroes, quadruple the quality. Such is the case for “The Avengers,” the first in Marvel’s cinematic canon to be an honest-to-goodness grand slam. “The Avengers” follows Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.
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Movie Review: “The Five-Year Engagement”
If one were to find one of the few remaining Blockbuster stores, spin around and throw a stick at random, it would likely either hit or land near a film starring Jason Segel.
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Movie review: ‘Goon’ lacks clear direction
Inspired by the book, Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey Into a Minor Hockey League, Goon tells the story of an up-and-coming hockey player. Though the film stars Sean William Scott, it is not Stifler-on-ice.